Link Rot

I’m extremely interested in the digital dark age we’re producing, especially when it comes to link rot…

Eight years later, the site still exists, essentially frozen in time. That provides an interesting window into the phenomenon of “link rot,” or hyperlinks that used to work but now point to dead pages. Our analysis found that 22% of the Million Dollar Homepage’s pixels now fail to load a webpage when clicked.

[…] e-books and their authors if there is no record of the work in print. Some have called this the digital dark age. We deal with this everyday as we receive manuscripts and urge authors to their most marketable […]